ITEM:         
PUBLIC HEARINGS

 

24.

CONSIDER ADOPTION OF PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2009-10 MPWMD BUDGET AND RESOLUTION 2009-07

 

Meeting Date:

June 15, 2009

Budgeted: 

N/A

 

From:

Darby Fuerst,

Program/

N/A

 

General Manager

Line Item No.:

 

Prepared By:

Rick Dickhaut

Cost Estimate:

N/A

 

General Counsel Approval:  N/A

Committee Recommendation:  N/A

CEQA Compliance:  N/A

 

SUMMARY:  At the June 1, 2009 budget workshop, staff presented the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2009-10.  After receiving staff’s presentation and responses to questions regarding the proposed 2009-10 budget, the Board requested no changes.  The latest version of the proposed 2009-10 budget is attached as Exhibit 24-A.  Proposed expenditures and revenues total $7,953,600.  The revenue budget does include the use of general operating reserves in the amount of $780,800. However, as noted in the background section, if the District was not funding the ASR project on a pay-as-you-go basis, the proposed budget would replenish the general operating reserve by $46,600.  Resolution No. 2009-__, A Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Adopting the Budget for Fiscal Year 2009-10 is included as Page 1 of the budget document.

 

RECOMMENDATION:  District Staff recommends that the Board adopt Resolution No. 2009-07, A Resolution of the Board of Directors of the Monterey Peninsula Water Management District Adopting the Budget for Fiscal Year 2009-10.

 

BACKGROUND:  For several years prior to Fiscal Year 2005-06, District budgets had been balanced by using significant amounts of previously accumulated reserves.  At the District’s strategic planning session on September 29, 2004, staff recommended that a balanced budget be prepared for Fiscal Year 2005-06 using a combination of revenue and expenditure adjustments to eliminate the use of reserve funds.  At the January 19, 2005 budget workshop, the Board adopted an eight-part strategy for balancing the 2005-06 budget.  The proposed Fiscal Year 2009-10 budget was prepared consistent with that strategy, resulting in a balanced budget for on-going expenditures for the fifth consecutive year.  Despite the strategy to adopt a balance budget, it should be noted that the FY 2009-10 budget does include use of the general operating reserve due to an exception to the strategy that was previously approved by the Board.  At its November 2007 meeting, the Board authorized the use of general operating reserves to fund completion of the Phase 1 Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) Project on a pay-as-you-go basis.  It should be noted that, if the District was not funding the ASR project on a pay-as-you-go basis, the proposed budget would actually replenish the general operating reserve by $46,600.  The proposed Fiscal Year 2009-10 budget was presented by staff to the Board at its June 1, 2009 budget workshop.  No changes were requested by the Board at that time.

 

EXHIBITS

24-A    Fiscal Year 2009-10 Proposed Budget

 

 

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